The Old New Thing

The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 4: Addition and subtraction

July 29, 2022 Jul 29, 2022 07/29/22

Raymond Chen

Starting with the basic arithmetic.

The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 3: Addressing modes

July 28, 2022 Jul 28, 2022 07/28/22

Raymond Chen

The ways of accessing memory.

The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 2: Extended register operations

July 27, 2022 Jul 27, 2022 07/27/22

Raymond Chen

The weird ways of transforming the value in a register.

The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 1: Introduction

July 26, 2022 Jul 26, 2022 07/26/22

Raymond Chen

Make it a double.

Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from the 8080, but why not add the ability to indirect through AX, CX and DX?

July 25, 2022 Jul 25, 2022 07/25/22

Raymond Chen

So many addressing modes, so little space.

Using C++/WinRT’s final_release to control which thread destructs your object

July 22, 2022 Jul 22, 2022 07/22/22

Raymond Chen

Once it's yours, you can take it wherever you like.

Making sure that people use make_unique and make_shared to make your object

July 21, 2022 Jul 21, 2022 07/21/22

Raymond Chen

Using a secret signal in what is required to be a public constructor.

My class derives from std::enable_shared_from_this, but shared_from_this() doesn’t work

July 20, 2022 Jul 20, 2022 07/20/22

Raymond Chen

Various cases where your enabled shared_from_this doesn't work.

Microspeak: The one-pager

July 19, 2022 Jul 19, 2022 07/19/22

Raymond Chen

Rarely ever one page long.

C++ coroutine gotcha: Falling off the end of a function-level catch

July 18, 2022 Jul 18, 2022 07/18/22

Raymond Chen

You still have to return something, but today's compilers don't warn you.